Oh guys. Welcome to the latest issue of Week in Review. The newsletter features his most read TechCrunch articles over the past seven days. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Here’s the link.
So let’s continue this week’s AI story. So, this week’s tech news.
most read
Microsoft and AI: “Today is a new era of search,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at a press event this week. He was referring to the company’s integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 into his 13-year-old search engine, Bing. People at Redmond say they hope the integration will allow Bing to compete better with Google. After the AI news broke, the app’s downloads jumped 10-fold as Microsoft promised users who had installed it priority access to the new Bing. Want to know more? Get hands-on with Frederic’s search engine.
Google and AI: Not to be outdone, Google this week announced Bard for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It’s currently in testing and uses Google’s language model for conversational applications to power conversational AI with information on the web. But Devin also says the company is losing control.
In MUM’s words (sorry, too easy): Google announced this week that its “multisearch” feature, which allows users to search using images and text, is now available globally on mobile. What do you think is the driving force behind multisearch? An AI technique called the multitasking integration model. mother!
GitHub Layoffs: This week, Microsoft’s GitHub announced it would lay off 10% of its 3,000 staff. As part of an effort to “protect short-term health” for the company, GitHub will be closing all offices and going fully remote.
Apple executives on M2: In an extensive interview with Apple VP, my boss and TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Matthew Panzarino explored the company’s latest M line of chips and took a deep dive into the M2 MacBook Pro and Mac mini models. Spoiler alert: they are faster.
India blocks betting and loan apps. India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has called for blocking 232 betting and loan apps to keep users’ data safe, among other reasons.
football! : It’s time for Super Bowl LVII. There are several ways to stream. Click here for details.
audio
In this week’s Equity, Natasha talks to Cleo’s chief business officer and former CEO, SJ Sacchetti, about egos, setting boundaries, stepping down, becoming a “statistic,” and why the company needs to thrive without you. Also at Found, Darrell and Becca told Keeta Burke-Williams, founder and CEO of consumer fragrance company Ourside, that she was interested in disrupting the huge, outdated fragrance industry. I talked about why I had
TechCrunch+
TC+ subscribers have access to detailed commentary, analysis, and research. You will know this if you are already a subscriber. If not, please consider signing up. Here are this week’s highlights:
AI Bias: Dom reports bias in most aspects of AI, from investment and employment to data collection and production. Who is AI’s next frontier for?
African Startup Ecosystem: Last year saw record investments in African start-ups. Tage found that he spoke with eight investors and found the key to this was pre-seed and seed-stage investors. But there is still a long way to go.
Spinach.io’s pitch deck breakdown: Haje looks at the seed deck from Spinach.io, a company that develops meeting tools for engineers.
For cybersecurity professionals: Contributor David J. Bianco wrote about the defender’s dilemma: It’s also a lie. “
